Ivan Fischer is its principal conductor. This includes the Hackesche Hfe, a conglomeration of buildings around several courtyards, reconstructed around 1996. Berlin is home to many magazine, newspaper, book, and scientific/academic publishers and their associated service industries. The Funkturm Berlin is a 150-meter-tall (490ft) lattice radio tower in the fairground area, built between 1924 and 1926. According to figures from the International Congress and Convention Association in 2015, Berlin became the leading organizer of conferences globally, hosting 195 international meetings. This is such an interesting, out of the box idea and we are oh no curious as to how it will smell. There are the Freie Universitt Berlin (Free University of Berlin, FU Berlin) with about 33,000[190] students, the Humboldt Universitt zu Berlin (HU Berlin) with 35,000[191] students, and the Technische Universitt Berlin (TU Berlin) with 35,000[192] students. The Berlin airlift, conducted by the three western Allies, overcame this blockade by supplying food and other supplies to the city from June 1948 to May 1949. Friedrichstrae was Berlin's legendary street during the Golden Twenties. [44] Under the rule of Frederick II, Berlin became a center of the Enlightenment, but also, was briefly occupied during the Seven Years' War by the Russian army. 
It partners with major multinational companies such as Siemens, Deutsche Telekom, and SAP. In 1861, neighboring suburbs including Wedding, Moabit and several others were incorporated into Berlin. [158] Berlin is number 8 at the Global Power City Index. [235][236] German bakeries offering a variety of breads and pastries are widespread. Moojo Turns Swedish House Mafias Heaven Takes You Home Into A RFSDU SOLAnnounces Surrender RemixLP, Drops Adriatique Remix. The Museum Island in the River Spree houses five museums built from 1830 to 1930 and is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Before the opening of the BER in Brandenburg, Berlin was served by Tegel Airport and Schnefeld Airport. 
St. Hedwig's Cathedral is Berlin's Roman Catholic cathedral. The UMTS (3G) and LTE (4G) networks of the three major cellular operators Vodafone, T-Mobile and O2 enable the use of mobile broadband applications citywide. Around 130,000 jobs were added in this period. In 2014 the German capital registered a migration surplus of approximately 40,000 people.[98]. [218][219] Today, in addition to a positive atmosphere in the wider club scene, the city again has a huge number of queer clubs and festivals. 
The dialect is now seen more like a sociolect, largely through increased immigration and trends among the educated population to speak standard German in everyday life. It also runs an airport express rail service, as well as trains to several international destinations like Vienna, Prague, Zrich, Warsaw, Wrocaw, Budapest and Amsterdam. 
Berlin today is consistently rated as an important world city for street art culture. Typical Germanized place name suffixes of Slavic origin are -ow, -itz, -vitz, -witz, -itzsch and -in, prefixes are Windisch and Wendisch. 23 restaurants in Berlin have been awarded one or more Michelin stars in the Michelin Guide of 2021, which ranks the city at the top for the number of restaurants having this distinction in Germany. The Brandenburg Gate is an iconic landmark of Berlin and Germany; it stands as a symbol of eventful European history and of unity and peace. The East Berlin system which inherited the Hauptelegraphenamt, the central hub of the system, was in operation until 1976. The Hamburger Bahnhof, in Moabit, exhibits a major collection of modern and contemporary art. [155] The public broadcaster RBB has its headquarters in Berlin as well as the commercial broadcasters MTV Europe and Welt. It is now possible to walk around through your everyday life smelling like a Berlin techno club. The Bauhaus Archive is a museum of 20th-century design from the famous Bauhaus school. The national railway operator Deutsche Bahn,[145] Europe's largest digital publisher[146] Axel Springer as well as the MDAX-listed firms Zalando and HelloFresh and also have their main headquarters in the city. [66] A partial opening by the end of 2020 of the Humboldt Forum museum, housed in the reconstructed Berlin Palace, which had been announced in June, was postponed until March 2021. It is a transhipment and storage site for inland shipping with a growing importance.[166].
Berlin maintains official partnerships with 17 cities.
As of 2011[update] Berlin is home to 138 museums and more than 400 art galleries. Of its ninety-six neighborhoods, twenty-two bear a (partly) Slavic-derived name: Altglienicke, Alt-Treptow, Britz, Buch, Buckow, Gatow, Karow, Kladow, Kpenick, Lankwitz, Lbars, Malchow, Marzahn, Pankow, Prenzlauer Berg, Rudow, Schmckwitz, Spandau, Stadtrandsiedlung Malchow, Steglitz, Tegel and Zehlendorf. [48] In 1871, Berlin became capital of the newly founded German Empire. The SOUND and the Dschungel gained notoriety.
The Charit Medical School has around 8,000 students. The office of the Governing Mayor is in the Rotes Rathaus (Red City Hall). The Science and Business Park in Adlershof is the largest technology park in Germany measured by revenue. [25] Other landmarks include the Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag building, Potsdamer Platz, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, the Berlin Wall Memorial, the East Side Gallery, the Berlin Victory Column, Berlin Cathedral and the Berlin Television Tower, the tallest structure in Germany. The Charit complex (Universittsklinik Charit) is the largest university hospital in Europe, tracing back its origins to the year 1710. Until 2008, Berlin was also served by the smaller Tempelhof Airport, which functioned as a city airport, with a convenient location near the city center, allowing for quick transit times between the central business district and the airport. [138] Within the Eurozone, Berlin has become a center for business relocation and international investments. Regional rail lines of the Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg provide access to the surrounding regions of Brandenburg and to the Baltic Sea. The expanded Deutsches Historisches Museum reopened in the Zeughaus with an overview of German history spanning more than a millennium. Berlin's history has left the city with a polycentric organization and a highly eclectic array of architecture and buildings. ): Berlin 1994. Following German reunification, the center portion was reconstructed with a steel frame, and U-Bahn service resumed in 1995. Its main exhibition area covers more than 160,000 square meters (1,722,226sqft). [citation needed] Since 2011, a number of app based e-car and e-scooter sharing services have evolved. The annual Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) with around 500,000 admissions is considered to be the largest publicly attended film festival in the world. Foreign residents of Berlin originate from about 190 countries. This system transmits compressed digital audio, digital video and other data in an MPEG transport stream. [258] The team represented Berlin as a founding member of the Bundesliga in 1963. The sector comprises music, film, advertising, architecture, art, design, fashion, performing arts, publishing, R&D, software,[152] TV, radio, and video games.
[64] Due to the fall in passenger numbers resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, plans were announced to temporarily close BER's Terminal 5, the former Schnefeld Airport, beginning in March 2021 for up to one year. The total annual federal budget managed by the German government exceeded 310 ($375) billion in 2013. During the Weimar era, Berlin underwent political unrest due to economic uncertainties but also became a renowned center of the Roaring Twenties. Of the estimated population of 30,00045,000 Jewish residents,[116] approximately 12,000 are registered members of religious organizations.[111]. [citation needed] In 2012, around 7,600 mostly beige colored taxicabs were in service. Gerstengarbe FW, Werner PC (2009) A short update on Koeppen climate shifts in Europe between 1901 and 2003. Berlin contains three World Heritage Sites: Museum Island; the Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin; and the Berlin Modernism Housing Estates. [68] However, a clause added to the Basic Law in 1994, Article 118a, allows Berlin and Brandenburg to unify without federal approval, requiring a referendum and a ratification by both state parliaments. For several years Berlin has been recognized as a major center of business founders. It began construction in 2006, with the intention of replacing Tegel Airport (TXL) and Schnefeld Airport (SXF) as the single commercial airport of Berlin. Potsdamer Platz is an entire quarter built from scratch after the Wall came down. Every Berlin borough also established its own twin towns. It failed largely due to Brandenburg voters not wanting to take on Berlin's large and growing public debt and fearing losing identity and influence to the capital. Berlin's nightlife has been celebrated as one of the most diverse and vibrant of its kind. The Konzerthausorchester Berlin was founded in 1952 as the orchestra for East Berlin. [31], In 1740, Frederick II, known as Frederick the Great (17401786), came to power. The Berlin 380-kV electric line is the backbone of the city's energy grid. [229], The cuisine and culinary offerings of Berlin vary greatly. The city was a residence of the Prussian kings and the German Kaiser, until 1918. [108], According to the 2011 census, approximately 37 percent of the population reported being members of a legally-recognized church or religious organization. The area around Hackescher Markt is home to fashionable culture, with countless clothing outlets, clubs, bars, and galleries. Berlin is the most populous city proper in the European Union. Its Zoological Garden is the most visited zoo in Europe and one of the most popular worldwide. Many Classical buildings line the street, and part of Humboldt University is there.
[38] Frederick William, known as the "Great Elector", who had succeeded his father George William as ruler in 1640, initiated a policy of promoting immigration and religious tolerance. The earliest evidence of settlements in the area of today's Berlin are remnants of a house foundation dated to 1174, found in excavations in Berlin Mitte,[27] and a wooden beam dated from approximately 1192. The Kurfrstendamm is home to some of Berlin's luxurious stores with the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at its eastern end on Breitscheidplatz. In the mid-1950s, it was closed to vehicles, and after the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, pedestrian traffic was heavily restricted. Berlin will host the 2023 Special Olympics World Summer Games. [136] The historic Babelsberg Studios and the production company UFA are adjacent to Berlin in Potsdam. [157] Economist Intelligence Unit ranks Berlin number 21 of all global cities. It has the largest mounted dinosaur in the world (a Giraffatitan skeleton). The city that never sleeps, or better yet, where you never have to sleep", "Art of Now Berlin's Nightlife BBC Sounds", "In the Capital of Electronic Music, Women Rule the Scene", "MICHELIN Guide, Germany, Berlin Restaurants", "Good Taste Award Winner 2015: Berlin, The New Vegetarian Capital", "Conscious Food Consumption at Berlin's Restlos Glcklich", "Spicy sausage that is worthy of a shrine in Berlin", "Chocolate Heaven at Fassbender & Rausch", "There's Nothing More German Than a Big, Fat Juicy Dner Kebab", "Peter Joseph Lenn, Senate Department of Urban Development", "Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin", "Melbourne retains ultimate sports city title", "Italy conquer the world as Germany wins friends", "Euroleague Final Four returns to Berlin in 2016", "Berlin, Germany selected to host the 2023 Special Olympics World Games", "500,000 spectators to watch the game together", "Der Landessportbund Berlin Mitglieder", "Berlin's swimming pools and bathing spots", Cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants, States of the Federal Republic of Germany, states of the Federal Republic of Germany, Institutional seats of the European Union, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, Spanish Organization for the Blind (ONCE), Faceted Application of Subject Terminology, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Berlin&oldid=1099340817, Populated places established in the 13th century, 1230s establishments in the Holy Roman Empire, CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown, Articles with dead external links from June 2022, Articles with dead external links from July 2019, Articles with dead external links from December 2021, Articles with permanently dead external links, Short description is different from Wikidata, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Pages using infobox settlement with bad settlement type, Pages using infobox settlement with possible area code list, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2019, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2019, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2020, Pages using multiple image with manual scaled images, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2021, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2015, Wikipedia articles in need of updating from January 2021, All Wikipedia articles in need of updating, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2014, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2011, Articles with MusicBrainz area identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. [81] Snowfall mainly occurs from December through March. Among the largest international corporations who have their German or European headquarters in Berlin are Bombardier Transportation, Securing Energy for Europe, Coca-Cola, Pfizer, Sony and Total.
It partners with major multinational companies such as Siemens, Deutsche Telekom, and SAP. In 1861, neighboring suburbs including Wedding, Moabit and several others were incorporated into Berlin. [158] Berlin is number 8 at the Global Power City Index. [235][236] German bakeries offering a variety of breads and pastries are widespread. Moojo Turns Swedish House Mafias Heaven Takes You Home Into A RFSDU SOLAnnounces Surrender RemixLP, Drops Adriatique Remix. The Museum Island in the River Spree houses five museums built from 1830 to 1930 and is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Before the opening of the BER in Brandenburg, Berlin was served by Tegel Airport and Schnefeld Airport. St. Hedwig's Cathedral is Berlin's Roman Catholic cathedral. The UMTS (3G) and LTE (4G) networks of the three major cellular operators Vodafone, T-Mobile and O2 enable the use of mobile broadband applications citywide. Around 130,000 jobs were added in this period. In 2014 the German capital registered a migration surplus of approximately 40,000 people.[98]. [218][219] Today, in addition to a positive atmosphere in the wider club scene, the city again has a huge number of queer clubs and festivals. The dialect is now seen more like a sociolect, largely through increased immigration and trends among the educated population to speak standard German in everyday life. It also runs an airport express rail service, as well as trains to several international destinations like Vienna, Prague, Zrich, Warsaw, Wrocaw, Budapest and Amsterdam. Berlin today is consistently rated as an important world city for street art culture. Typical Germanized place name suffixes of Slavic origin are -ow, -itz, -vitz, -witz, -itzsch and -in, prefixes are Windisch and Wendisch. 23 restaurants in Berlin have been awarded one or more Michelin stars in the Michelin Guide of 2021, which ranks the city at the top for the number of restaurants having this distinction in Germany. The Brandenburg Gate is an iconic landmark of Berlin and Germany; it stands as a symbol of eventful European history and of unity and peace. The East Berlin system which inherited the Hauptelegraphenamt, the central hub of the system, was in operation until 1976. The Hamburger Bahnhof, in Moabit, exhibits a major collection of modern and contemporary art. [155] The public broadcaster RBB has its headquarters in Berlin as well as the commercial broadcasters MTV Europe and Welt. It is now possible to walk around through your everyday life smelling like a Berlin techno club. The Bauhaus Archive is a museum of 20th-century design from the famous Bauhaus school. The national railway operator Deutsche Bahn,[145] Europe's largest digital publisher[146] Axel Springer as well as the MDAX-listed firms Zalando and HelloFresh and also have their main headquarters in the city. [66] A partial opening by the end of 2020 of the Humboldt Forum museum, housed in the reconstructed Berlin Palace, which had been announced in June, was postponed until March 2021. It is a transhipment and storage site for inland shipping with a growing importance.[166]. Berlin maintains official partnerships with 17 cities.
As of 2011[update] Berlin is home to 138 museums and more than 400 art galleries. Of its ninety-six neighborhoods, twenty-two bear a (partly) Slavic-derived name: Altglienicke, Alt-Treptow, Britz, Buch, Buckow, Gatow, Karow, Kladow, Kpenick, Lankwitz, Lbars, Malchow, Marzahn, Pankow, Prenzlauer Berg, Rudow, Schmckwitz, Spandau, Stadtrandsiedlung Malchow, Steglitz, Tegel and Zehlendorf. [48] In 1871, Berlin became capital of the newly founded German Empire. The SOUND and the Dschungel gained notoriety.
The Charit Medical School has around 8,000 students. The office of the Governing Mayor is in the Rotes Rathaus (Red City Hall). The Science and Business Park in Adlershof is the largest technology park in Germany measured by revenue. [25] Other landmarks include the Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag building, Potsdamer Platz, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, the Berlin Wall Memorial, the East Side Gallery, the Berlin Victory Column, Berlin Cathedral and the Berlin Television Tower, the tallest structure in Germany. The Charit complex (Universittsklinik Charit) is the largest university hospital in Europe, tracing back its origins to the year 1710. Until 2008, Berlin was also served by the smaller Tempelhof Airport, which functioned as a city airport, with a convenient location near the city center, allowing for quick transit times between the central business district and the airport. [138] Within the Eurozone, Berlin has become a center for business relocation and international investments. Regional rail lines of the Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg provide access to the surrounding regions of Brandenburg and to the Baltic Sea. The expanded Deutsches Historisches Museum reopened in the Zeughaus with an overview of German history spanning more than a millennium. Berlin's history has left the city with a polycentric organization and a highly eclectic array of architecture and buildings. ): Berlin 1994. Following German reunification, the center portion was reconstructed with a steel frame, and U-Bahn service resumed in 1995. Its main exhibition area covers more than 160,000 square meters (1,722,226sqft). [citation needed] Since 2011, a number of app based e-car and e-scooter sharing services have evolved. The annual Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) with around 500,000 admissions is considered to be the largest publicly attended film festival in the world. Foreign residents of Berlin originate from about 190 countries. This system transmits compressed digital audio, digital video and other data in an MPEG transport stream. [258] The team represented Berlin as a founding member of the Bundesliga in 1963. The sector comprises music, film, advertising, architecture, art, design, fashion, performing arts, publishing, R&D, software,[152] TV, radio, and video games.
[64] Due to the fall in passenger numbers resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, plans were announced to temporarily close BER's Terminal 5, the former Schnefeld Airport, beginning in March 2021 for up to one year. The total annual federal budget managed by the German government exceeded 310 ($375) billion in 2013. During the Weimar era, Berlin underwent political unrest due to economic uncertainties but also became a renowned center of the Roaring Twenties. Of the estimated population of 30,00045,000 Jewish residents,[116] approximately 12,000 are registered members of religious organizations.[111]. [citation needed] In 2012, around 7,600 mostly beige colored taxicabs were in service. Gerstengarbe FW, Werner PC (2009) A short update on Koeppen climate shifts in Europe between 1901 and 2003. Berlin contains three World Heritage Sites: Museum Island; the Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin; and the Berlin Modernism Housing Estates. [68] However, a clause added to the Basic Law in 1994, Article 118a, allows Berlin and Brandenburg to unify without federal approval, requiring a referendum and a ratification by both state parliaments. For several years Berlin has been recognized as a major center of business founders. It began construction in 2006, with the intention of replacing Tegel Airport (TXL) and Schnefeld Airport (SXF) as the single commercial airport of Berlin. Potsdamer Platz is an entire quarter built from scratch after the Wall came down. Every Berlin borough also established its own twin towns. It failed largely due to Brandenburg voters not wanting to take on Berlin's large and growing public debt and fearing losing identity and influence to the capital. Berlin's nightlife has been celebrated as one of the most diverse and vibrant of its kind. The Konzerthausorchester Berlin was founded in 1952 as the orchestra for East Berlin. [31], In 1740, Frederick II, known as Frederick the Great (17401786), came to power. The Berlin 380-kV electric line is the backbone of the city's energy grid. [229], The cuisine and culinary offerings of Berlin vary greatly. The city was a residence of the Prussian kings and the German Kaiser, until 1918. [108], According to the 2011 census, approximately 37 percent of the population reported being members of a legally-recognized church or religious organization. The area around Hackescher Markt is home to fashionable culture, with countless clothing outlets, clubs, bars, and galleries. Berlin is the most populous city proper in the European Union. Its Zoological Garden is the most visited zoo in Europe and one of the most popular worldwide. Many Classical buildings line the street, and part of Humboldt University is there.
[38] Frederick William, known as the "Great Elector", who had succeeded his father George William as ruler in 1640, initiated a policy of promoting immigration and religious tolerance. The earliest evidence of settlements in the area of today's Berlin are remnants of a house foundation dated to 1174, found in excavations in Berlin Mitte,[27] and a wooden beam dated from approximately 1192. The Kurfrstendamm is home to some of Berlin's luxurious stores with the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at its eastern end on Breitscheidplatz. In the mid-1950s, it was closed to vehicles, and after the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, pedestrian traffic was heavily restricted. Berlin will host the 2023 Special Olympics World Summer Games. [136] The historic Babelsberg Studios and the production company UFA are adjacent to Berlin in Potsdam. [157] Economist Intelligence Unit ranks Berlin number 21 of all global cities. It has the largest mounted dinosaur in the world (a Giraffatitan skeleton). The city that never sleeps, or better yet, where you never have to sleep", "Art of Now Berlin's Nightlife BBC Sounds", "In the Capital of Electronic Music, Women Rule the Scene", "MICHELIN Guide, Germany, Berlin Restaurants", "Good Taste Award Winner 2015: Berlin, The New Vegetarian Capital", "Conscious Food Consumption at Berlin's Restlos Glcklich", "Spicy sausage that is worthy of a shrine in Berlin", "Chocolate Heaven at Fassbender & Rausch", "There's Nothing More German Than a Big, Fat Juicy Dner Kebab", "Peter Joseph Lenn, Senate Department of Urban Development", "Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin", "Melbourne retains ultimate sports city title", "Italy conquer the world as Germany wins friends", "Euroleague Final Four returns to Berlin in 2016", "Berlin, Germany selected to host the 2023 Special Olympics World Games", "500,000 spectators to watch the game together", "Der Landessportbund Berlin Mitglieder", "Berlin's swimming pools and bathing spots", Cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants, States of the Federal Republic of Germany, states of the Federal Republic of Germany, Institutional seats of the European Union, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, Spanish Organization for the Blind (ONCE), Faceted Application of Subject Terminology, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Berlin&oldid=1099340817, Populated places established in the 13th century, 1230s establishments in the Holy Roman Empire, CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown, Articles with dead external links from June 2022, Articles with dead external links from July 2019, Articles with dead external links from December 2021, Articles with permanently dead external links, Short description is different from Wikidata, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Pages using infobox settlement with bad settlement type, Pages using infobox settlement with possible area code list, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2019, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2019, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2020, Pages using multiple image with manual scaled images, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2021, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2015, Wikipedia articles in need of updating from January 2021, All Wikipedia articles in need of updating, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2014, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2011, Articles with MusicBrainz area identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. [81] Snowfall mainly occurs from December through March. Among the largest international corporations who have their German or European headquarters in Berlin are Bombardier Transportation, Securing Energy for Europe, Coca-Cola, Pfizer, Sony and Total.